Bug#420582: atyfb: text mode console slightly broken
On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 11:18:59PM +0200, Manuel Tobias Schiller wrote: On Thu, 9 Jul 2009 19:09:50 +0200 Moritz Muehlenhoff j...@inutil.org wrote: On Mon, Jul 06, 2009 at 11:55:59PM +0200, Manuel Tobias Schiller wrote: after much delay (I'm sorry, I'm drowning in work) and a new batch of ram chips (which greatly improved the stability of the machine in question) I managed to install the new 2.6.30 kernel from backports on the machine, and the display is fine. Whatever seems to have caused the trouble seems to be fixed upstream... The stock 2.6.26 kernel that comes with lenny still shows the strange behaviour. I hope these tests help. I'm at CERN for the rest of the week (the machine is here in Heidelberg), so if you need anything tested, please let me know, this should be much easier to do now that I haven't seen any crashes on the machine for over three weeks. Cheers, and thanks for the patience, http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=7fbb7cadd062baf299fd8b26a80ea99da0c3fe01 matches the description of your problem or is your hardware from a different type? If appyling the patch on top of the 2.6.26 kernel fixes the problem for you, we can consider it for a point update. Cheers, Moritz Hi Moritz, I applied the patch you mentioned above to a standard 2.6.26 kernel with debian patches, rebuilt, and it fixes the problems for me. I have no strong feelings concerning your point update suggestion. The patch does not seem to create much trouble in kernel mainline, or it would have been reverted already. (It was in at least in 2.6.28 which I failed to build correctly for some reason, and it's still in in 2.6.30.) So I think that including it should not harm anyone, but it may potentially fix things for PowerMac/PowerBook users who still sometimes use the text console. Maybe including the patch with the next round of security updates to the kernel in lenny would be the easiest way for you to go. Thanks again for you help. Merged in SVN for next kernel point update. Cheers, Moritz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#420582: atyfb: text mode console slightly broken
On Thu, 9 Jul 2009 19:09:50 +0200 Moritz Muehlenhoff j...@inutil.org wrote: On Mon, Jul 06, 2009 at 11:55:59PM +0200, Manuel Tobias Schiller wrote: after much delay (I'm sorry, I'm drowning in work) and a new batch of ram chips (which greatly improved the stability of the machine in question) I managed to install the new 2.6.30 kernel from backports on the machine, and the display is fine. Whatever seems to have caused the trouble seems to be fixed upstream... The stock 2.6.26 kernel that comes with lenny still shows the strange behaviour. I hope these tests help. I'm at CERN for the rest of the week (the machine is here in Heidelberg), so if you need anything tested, please let me know, this should be much easier to do now that I haven't seen any crashes on the machine for over three weeks. Cheers, and thanks for the patience, http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=7fbb7cadd062baf299fd8b26a80ea99da0c3fe01 matches the description of your problem or is your hardware from a different type? If appyling the patch on top of the 2.6.26 kernel fixes the problem for you, we can consider it for a point update. Cheers, Moritz Hi Moritz, I applied the patch you mentioned above to a standard 2.6.26 kernel with debian patches, rebuilt, and it fixes the problems for me. I have no strong feelings concerning your point update suggestion. The patch does not seem to create much trouble in kernel mainline, or it would have been reverted already. (It was in at least in 2.6.28 which I failed to build correctly for some reason, and it's still in in 2.6.30.) So I think that including it should not harm anyone, but it may potentially fix things for PowerMac/PowerBook users who still sometimes use the text console. Maybe including the patch with the next round of security updates to the kernel in lenny would be the easiest way for you to go. Thanks again for you help. Cheers, Manuel -- Homepage: http://www.hinterbergen.de/mala OpenPGP: 0xA330353E (DSA) or 0xD87D188C (RSA) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#420582: atyfb: text mode console slightly broken
On Mon, Jul 06, 2009 at 11:55:59PM +0200, Manuel Tobias Schiller wrote: after much delay (I'm sorry, I'm drowning in work) and a new batch of ram chips (which greatly improved the stability of the machine in question) I managed to install the new 2.6.30 kernel from backports on the machine, and the display is fine. Whatever seems to have caused the trouble seems to be fixed upstream... The stock 2.6.26 kernel that comes with lenny still shows the strange behaviour. I hope these tests help. I'm at CERN for the rest of the week (the machine is here in Heidelberg), so if you need anything tested, please let me know, this should be much easier to do now that I haven't seen any crashes on the machine for over three weeks. Cheers, and thanks for the patience, http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=7fbb7cadd062baf299fd8b26a80ea99da0c3fe01 matches the description of your problem or is your hardware from a different type? If appyling the patch on top of the 2.6.26 kernel fixes the problem for you, we can consider it for a point update. Cheers, Moritz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#420582: atyfb: text mode console slightly broken
On Thu, 9 Jul 2009 19:09:50 +0200 Moritz Muehlenhoff j...@inutil.org wrote: On Mon, Jul 06, 2009 at 11:55:59PM +0200, Manuel Tobias Schiller wrote: after much delay (I'm sorry, I'm drowning in work) and a new batch of ram chips (which greatly improved the stability of the machine in question) I managed to install the new 2.6.30 kernel from backports on the machine, and the display is fine. Whatever seems to have caused the trouble seems to be fixed upstream... The stock 2.6.26 kernel that comes with lenny still shows the strange behaviour. I hope these tests help. I'm at CERN for the rest of the week (the machine is here in Heidelberg), so if you need anything tested, please let me know, this should be much easier to do now that I haven't seen any crashes on the machine for over three weeks. Cheers, and thanks for the patience, http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=7fbb7cadd062baf299fd8b26a80ea99da0c3fe01 matches the description of your problem or is your hardware from a different type? If appyling the patch on top of the 2.6.26 kernel fixes the problem for you, we can consider it for a point update. Cheers, Moritz Greetings from CERN! Sounds similar enough. It's an old PowerBook G3 in my case, so I'll give it a try when I'm back to Heidelberg. It might have to wait till Wednesday next week because I have to give a talk (30 mins) on Wednesday afternoon, and I learned of this on very short notice. (Someone forgot to tell our group that we should send a speaker - oh, well... ;) I'll let you know what comes out. Cheers, Manuel -- Homepage: http://www.hinterbergen.de/mala OpenPGP: 0xA330353E (DSA) or 0xD87D188C (RSA) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#420582: atyfb: text mode console slightly broken
On Sat, 7 Feb 2009 15:34:59 +0100 Moritz Muehlenhoff j...@inutil.org wrote: On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 01:35:53PM +0100, Manuel Tobias Schiller wrote: Hi Moritz, I'm at CERN during this week, so I don't have access to the computer in question, and I'm busy this weekend, so I am certain that I can not check this out before next week. Sorry that I have to delay things a little. Have you been able to reproduce the problem with more recent kernel versions? Cheers, Moritz Hi Moritz, after much delay (I'm sorry, I'm drowning in work) and a new batch of ram chips (which greatly improved the stability of the machine in question) I managed to install the new 2.6.30 kernel from backports on the machine, and the display is fine. Whatever seems to have caused the trouble seems to be fixed upstream... The stock 2.6.26 kernel that comes with lenny still shows the strange behaviour. I hope these tests help. I'm at CERN for the rest of the week (the machine is here in Heidelberg), so if you need anything tested, please let me know, this should be much easier to do now that I haven't seen any crashes on the machine for over three weeks. Cheers, and thanks for the patience, Manuel -- Homepage: http://www.hinterbergen.de/mala OpenPGP: 0xA330353E (DSA) or 0xD87D188C (RSA) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#420582: atyfb: text mode console slightly broken
Hi Moritz, I must have forgotten during that CERN visit, I'm sorry. I tend to forget a lot of things not related to work lately. I remember I was upgrading the machine to lenny, so I'll look tonight in what state the upgrade is and finish it. Then I'll install the latest stable kernel from upstream and let you know what comes out. Cheers, Manuel On Sat, Feb 07, 2009 at 03:34:59PM +0100, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 01:35:53PM +0100, Manuel Tobias Schiller wrote: Hi Moritz, I'm at CERN during this week, so I don't have access to the computer in question, and I'm busy this weekend, so I am certain that I can not check this out before next week. Sorry that I have to delay things a little. Have you been able to reproduce the problem with more recent kernel versions? Cheers, Moritz -- Homepage: http://www.hinterbergen.de/mala OpenPGP: 0xA330353E (DSA) or 0xD87D188C (RSA) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#420582: atyfb: text mode console slightly broken
On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 01:35:53PM +0100, Manuel Tobias Schiller wrote: Hi Moritz, I'm at CERN during this week, so I don't have access to the computer in question, and I'm busy this weekend, so I am certain that I can not check this out before next week. Sorry that I have to delay things a little. Have you been able to reproduce the problem with more recent kernel versions? Cheers, Moritz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#420582: atyfb: text mode console slightly broken
Hi Moritz, I'm at CERN during this week, so I don't have access to the computer in question, and I'm busy this weekend, so I am certain that I can not check this out before next week. Sorry that I have to delay things a little. Cheers, Manuel On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 09:54:16PM +0100, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: Hi Manuel, I successfully revived the laptop in question, and the strange stripes are still there, both in the old kernel from back then and new 2.6.24-ethcnhalf one I got today via security upgrades. So yes, positive, this error still occurs with more recent kernel versions. Now that I have the laptop revived, let me know if you want some tests performed. There have been hardly any upstream changes to aty128fb.c since 2.6.24, so this bug likely still persists upstream. Can you try to reproduce this with version 2.6.28-rc6 (you can find the config to your kernel in /boot/config-*) and report this upstream at bugzilla.kernel.org? Cheers, Moritz -- Homepage: http://www.hinterbergen.de/mala OpenPGP: 0xA330353E (DSA) or 0xD87D188C (RSA) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#420582: atyfb: text mode console slightly broken
Hi Manuel, I successfully revived the laptop in question, and the strange stripes are still there, both in the old kernel from back then and new 2.6.24-ethcnhalf one I got today via security upgrades. So yes, positive, this error still occurs with more recent kernel versions. Now that I have the laptop revived, let me know if you want some tests performed. There have been hardly any upstream changes to aty128fb.c since 2.6.24, so this bug likely still persists upstream. Can you try to reproduce this with version 2.6.28-rc6 (you can find the config to your kernel in /boot/config-*) and report this upstream at bugzilla.kernel.org? Cheers, Moritz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#420582: atyfb: text mode console slightly broken
On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 01:12:06PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Package: linux-image-2.6.18-4-powerpc Version: 2.6.18.dfsg.1-12 Severity: important I've just upgraded to etch and encountered the following problem: When using the console, I get strange columns from the top of my screen to the bottom in which the character which should be displayed at that position alternates quite quickly with the one four characters to the right. This happens so fast that the eye can't follow properly. There are 7 of these columns, and the first 20 or so columns from the left of the screen display correctly. X works fine, though. However, not being able to use the console properly is a serious limitation of the current kernel, at least in my opinion. Does this error still occur with more recent kernel versions? If you're running Etch, could you try to reproduce this bug with the 2.6.24 based kernel added in 4.0r4? http://packages.qa.debian.org/l/linux-2.6.24.html Cheers, Moritz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#420582: atyfb: text mode console slightly broken
On Sat, 22 Nov 2008 14:18:47 +0100 Moritz Muehlenhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 01:12:06PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Package: linux-image-2.6.18-4-powerpc Version: 2.6.18.dfsg.1-12 Severity: important I've just upgraded to etch and encountered the following problem: When using the console, I get strange columns from the top of my screen to the bottom in which the character which should be displayed at that position alternates quite quickly with the one four characters to the right. This happens so fast that the eye can't follow properly. There are 7 of these columns, and the first 20 or so columns from the left of the screen display correctly. X works fine, though. However, not being able to use the console properly is a serious limitation of the current kernel, at least in my opinion. Does this error still occur with more recent kernel versions? If you're running Etch, could you try to reproduce this bug with the 2.6.24 based kernel added in 4.0r4? http://packages.qa.debian.org/l/linux-2.6.24.html Cheers, Moritz Hi Moritz, I successfully revived the laptop in question, and the strange stripes are still there, both in the old kernel from back then and new 2.6.24-ethcnhalf one I got today via security upgrades. So yes, positive, this error still occurs with more recent kernel versions. Now that I have the laptop revived, let me know if you want some tests performed. Cheers and thanks, Manuel -- Homepage: http://www.hinterbergen.de/mala OpenPGP: 0xA330353E (DSA) or 0xD87D188C (RSA) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#420582: atyfb: text mode console slightly broken
Package: linux-image-2.6.18-4-powerpc Version: 2.6.18.dfsg.1-12 Severity: important I've just upgraded to etch and encountered the following problem: When using the console, I get strange columns from the top of my screen to the bottom in which the character which should be displayed at that position alternates quite quickly with the one four characters to the right. This happens so fast that the eye can't follow properly. There are 7 of these columns, and the first 20 or so columns from the left of the screen display correctly. X works fine, though. However, not being able to use the console properly is a serious limitation of the current kernel, at least in my opinion. The old 2.6 series kernel in sarge had no such problems (that's not to be understood as a complaint but as an idea where to look for changes which broke things ;). The command line parameters I give to atyfb at boot are exactly the same as for the 2.6 kernel in sarge: video=atyfb:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (These are needed to make sure we switch to a video mode the laptop's LCD screen likes - it's one of the 14 ones, not one of the 12 ones which cause lots of problems...) My box is a power book G3 (a Wallstreet to be exact), I'll also give you the output of lspci -nn to make sure you know the exact chipset revision: 00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Motorola MPC106 [Grackle] [1057:0002] (rev 40) 00:0d.0 Unknown class [ff00]: Apple Computer Inc. Heathrow Mac I/O [106b:0010] (rev 01) 00:10.0 Unknown class [ff00]: Apple Computer Inc. Heathrow Mac I/O [106b:0010] (rev 01) 00:11.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage LT-G 215LG [1002:4c47] (rev 80) 00:13.0 CardBus bridge [0607]: Texas Instruments PCI1131 [104c:ac15] (rev 01) 00:13.1 CardBus bridge [0607]: Texas Instruments PCI1131 [104c:ac15] (rev 01) 01:00.0 USB Controller [0c03]: NEC Corporation USB [1033:0035] (rev 43) 01:00.1 USB Controller [0c03]: NEC Corporation USB [1033:0035] (rev 43) 01:00.2 USB Controller [0c03]: NEC Corporation USB 2.0 [1033:00e0] (rev 04) If you need additional information or want me to test something, please do write an e-mail. Best regards, Manuel -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: powerpc (ppc) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-powerpc Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Versions of packages linux-image-2.6.18-4-powerpc depends on: ii coreutils 5.97-5.3 The GNU core utilities ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.11 Debian configuration management sy ii initramfs-tools [linux-initra 0.85g tools for generating an initramfs ii mkvmlinuz 32 create a kernel to boot a PowerPC ii module-init-tools 3.3-pre4-2 tools for managing Linux kernel mo ii yaird [linux-initramfs-tool] 0.0.12-18 Yet Another mkInitRD linux-image-2.6.18-4-powerpc recommends no packages. -- debconf information: linux-image-2.6.18-4-powerpc/postinst/bootloader-test-error-2.6.18-4-powerpc: linux-image-2.6.18-4-powerpc/preinst/overwriting-modules-2.6.18-4-powerpc: true linux-image-2.6.18-4-powerpc/preinst/failed-to-move-modules-2.6.18-4-powerpc: linux-image-2.6.18-4-powerpc/preinst/elilo-initrd-2.6.18-4-powerpc: true linux-image-2.6.18-4-powerpc/postinst/create-kimage-link-2.6.18-4-powerpc: true linux-image-2.6.18-4-powerpc/preinst/initrd-2.6.18-4-powerpc: linux-image-2.6.18-4-powerpc/preinst/abort-overwrite-2.6.18-4-powerpc: linux-image-2.6.18-4-powerpc/preinst/lilo-initrd-2.6.18-4-powerpc: true linux-image-2.6.18-4-powerpc/postinst/kimage-is-a-directory: linux-image-2.6.18-4-powerpc/postinst/old-initrd-link-2.6.18-4-powerpc: true shared/kernel-image/really-run-bootloader: true linux-image-2.6.18-4-powerpc/preinst/bootloader-initrd-2.6.18-4-powerpc: true linux-image-2.6.18-4-powerpc/postinst/bootloader-error-2.6.18-4-powerpc: linux-image-2.6.18-4-powerpc/postinst/old-dir-initrd-link-2.6.18-4-powerpc: true linux-image-2.6.18-4-powerpc/prerm/removing-running-kernel-2.6.18-4-powerpc: true linux-image-2.6.18-4-powerpc/preinst/already-running-this-2.6.18-4-powerpc: linux-image-2.6.18-4-powerpc/postinst/depmod-error-initrd-2.6.18-4-powerpc: false linux-image-2.6.18-4-powerpc/preinst/lilo-has-ramdisk: linux-image-2.6.18-4-powerpc/postinst/old-system-map-link-2.6.18-4-powerpc: true linux-image-2.6.18-4-powerpc/postinst/depmod-error-2.6.18-4-powerpc: false linux-image-2.6.18-4-powerpc/prerm/would-invalidate-boot-loader-2.6.18-4-powerpc: true linux-image-2.6.18-4-powerpc/preinst/abort-install-2.6.18-4-powerpc: -- Homepage: http://www.hinterbergen.de/mala OpenPGP: 0xA330353E (DSA) or 0xD87D188C (RSA) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
